Wow, I love literature but compared to everyone else who's posted I feel like I've hardly read anything! Will certainly check out some of these books myself.

If you love classics, then anything JaneAusten for sure! You've probably read some of her books already, but she's one author I love going back to and get something new out of it every time. I haven't read all her books but loved all the ones I did; my favourite is P&P. Her writing style is so forceful, witty and genteel at the same time.

It's teen fiction but I second the suggestion of A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray! It's a great historical fiction/fantasy/thriller combo and kept me up a fair few nights, so suspenseful and hard to put down. There's a whole trilogy actually- it's called the GemmaDoyle Trilogy. I love the names in it too.

I'm surprised no one's suggested Gone With the Wind, one of my favourite books of all time. Epic, dramatic, exciting and feels so much shorter than it is- I almost wished it were longer! Every character is unique and memorable, even the minor ones.

Ooh, books! My favorite thing in the world (also, a great distraction from a paper I'm supposed to be writing.) Most of the books I read are classics, I suppose I"m a snob, but I've liked a lot of them! A few of my faves:

The Heretic's Daughter by KathleenKent is historical fiction based on a real woman from the Salem with trials. Very good!

The Old Man and the Sea by ErnestHemingway. Oh how i adore this book. Everyone i recommend it to seems to hate it.

I'm currently reading a book called The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and i forget the author but it's a delightful little mystery novel and the names in it make me happy (the sisters are Ophelia, Daphne, and Flavia).

I have to admit: in the summer i have a tendency to lose myself in chick-lit. I read BridgetJones's Diary every summer and again at Christmas (although that could also count as satire so). Others I've enjoyed are:
Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella (i could never get into the Shopaholic series, but this book is delightful)
Me and Mr Darcy by AlexandraPotter
Austenland and Midnight in Austenland by ShannonHale (the Austenland movie will hit theaters at the end of August. I had the opportunity to see it at the sundance film festival and it is truly hilarious)

I guess your probably have read it a million times but I am now re-reading The Picture Of DorianGray. Such a genius book, I like Wilde's language. I have read it in Russian but in English it's just...awesomeness.
Also on my list "To read and to re-read"
The Shining by StephenKing(as for gothic thrillers I also love love love The Fall Of The House Of Usher by EdgarPoe. Brilliant!)
The Green Mile by StephenKing
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Black Swan by Thomas Mann
The Cathcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerDoctorZhivago by Boris Pasternak
A Clockwork Orange by Anhtony Burgess
The Color Purple by AliceWalker
You can say I am boring